This week has been a hard, emotional, roller coaster of a time. I don't really feel up to making a post but I had something exciting to share, so here I am, making myself stick to my schedule. I had a tremendously fun time visiting my writer friend Frances Pauli this week. Where the kids got to play with hers. We went bowling, watched the kids swim, played with her two week old puppies. Such a cute litter :) And we actually got to get some work done as well.

I've been wanting to make a book trailer for a while but didn't quite know the ins and outs. Thankfully, with her help in pointing out how to use the tools I was able to put this together.




http://youtu.be/BYhRR-n7E68




I had a lot of fun making it. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you all think of it? You can either leave a comment here or send me an email through the contact form.

Have a wonderful week :)

So it's Sunday again. This marks week three of actually managing to update my blog, go me :D Happy summer solstice everyone! So far it's been a wonderful spring and a promising look into summer. The weather has been great. Warm and sunny, with periodic rain to water everything. It's been so nice that a lot of the flowers, like the daisy's and foxglove, all bloomed earlier than usual here. They normally don't start blooming until mid June. But they are past their prime already and almost done. We had daisies in full bloom in May.

There's so many activities I want to do with the kids, the beach, zoo, picnics, camping, that I can already feel fall encroaching. This summer is going to go by in the blink of an eye.

I'm finally past the halfway point in my revision of Flight. At this rate it's going to take me another two weeks before I'm done *sigh*. I'm hoping it will pick up speed. Keep your fingers crossed.

Now, for anyone who hasn't seen my twitter or FB, Emergence started a kindle countdown sale yesterday. As of this moment it is at .99c for the next 4 hours then it goes up to $1.99 for 40 hours. It will be on sale until Saturday. So if you got the paperback but want the kindle as well, or just haven't gotten it yet and want to, now's the time. It won't go on sale again until after Flight is released.

So, today I guess I'll leave you with a few pictures I had planned to upload from RadCon back in February. Better late than never, ;D

I had a beautiful blog post. It was wonderful. I came up with it in the shower. And when I got out, it was gone. Now you'll have to make do with this one.

Slow... Why does it have to be so slow. <grin>  So the revision on flight is in progress. I got all of the Beta's back. I smashed them all together (thank you combine feature) and got to work. I love that feature. Putting them all together in one document really lets me see the places where more than one person has commented on the same problem. Not to mention I only have to go through the document once.

At first glance, as I scanned through each as they returned, I didn't think there would be much in the way of drastic changes. So I was optimistic that I would get through it quickly. I have a rainbow of Beta's ;) Each specializes in different things. Some are writers who give me great feedback based on knowing the craft of writing, others are nit pickers who find my grammar or punctuation or redundancies. Then I have readers who don't necessarily know craft but they know my story, both past and future. Then there are the cold readers. The people who I hope will one day pick up my story just to read it. It's amazing what they find.

I love having so many different viewpoints to help me make my story better. The comments, while at first glance seemed straight forward, when I got into them really caused me to delve deeper. Showing places where the reader wanted to know more that I didn't see for the forest. The end result comes in new scenes, characters that didn't have as much screen time have found the light of day. Questions that weren't important to me I now realize I need to answer. It's an exciting thing. I know that it's stereotypical for writers not to want to change their babies. But I love (and hate, lol) the revision process. I don't have a problem whacking out phrases, lines or even entire scenes if they aren't working. Sure, some times there's a touch of whine (but I liked that) But on the whole if it doesn't work it goes. And I can always see the improvement for the pruning. Makes the tree more healthy.

So that's where I'm at this week. I'm only a quarter of the way through instead of done like I had hoped. But I really like the direction it's going. Now that school is out I'm hoping I can move faster, keep your fingers crossed.

It's amazing how fast time can go by. I had thought I would post updates after Radcon, and any number of other times since then. But somehow I always feel self conscious about what to say. Even when I have awesome stuff to report :)

Radcon went amazingly well. Not having ever sold in person before I took my box of books and figured it was way more than I needed. But I got the shock of my life when I nearly sold out that box over the weekend. I want to thank all the wonderful readers who were interested enough in my book to take it home with them. I can't wait to go next year. And by then I should have 4 titles in hand.

So, in an effort to try and actually stay on top of the blog I've decided to work at making sure I make a blog post every Sunday. Even if I have no idea what to say, lol.

This week is easy, so much time has passed that there's lots to talk about. First on the list is Flight, the second book in the Genesis Chronicles. I have gotten it back from all the Beta readers and just today started the revision. I'm 35 pages in and hope to have it off to the editor by the end of the week.  After that I'll be able to hopefully lock down Flight's release date, but I'm hoping for the beginning of August :D

While Flight is out visiting I'm going to finish up the second draft on Sundered, the first of the Cambion novels. A paranormal romance about the Kelusis, the race of Incubus/succubus which are symbiotic with humans. I can't wait to dig deeper into this story.

On a super exciting note I got a wonderful piece of fan art from J. Voss.  At the moment in my writing if I had to pick one favorite character it would be Kieran, so I can't say how happy this made me.

And in so many ways it means 'I've made it' to me. My ultimate goal with my stories is to make someone feel. And to influence someone to dream about it to the point that they want to make something, fan art or fic, is a dream come true.

And I wanted to share it with you. :)

So, the moment I’ve been waiting for (and of course all of you too, right?) has finally arrived.  The first book in the Genesis Chronicles, Emergence, is finally available for sale.  Both the trade paperback and the ebook are available at amazon.  But you can also buy the trade paper through my createspace estore front if you click this link.

It’s been twenty-five years since people started to change in the Pacific Northwest…  Since the emergence of the first Valkyries.  Most find it easier to pretend the problem doesn’t exist.  That the contagion isn’t something that can touch them.  Unfortunately the next to transform, and sprout wings, could be anyone.

Most of all, Jessica Reuther wants nothing more to do with Valkyries.  But when a recovery team comes for her, she becomes the contested bone among the wolves.  And a vicious game of tug-o-war ensues while she is forced to face a reality she prayed would never come.  In the wake of her metamorphosis, a new kind of change begins to sweep through the fledgling race, one that could have devastating consequences for humanity.

Emergence is the first instalment in the Genesis Chronicles series.  The second book, Flight, is in revisions at the moment and will be released later this summer.  If you would like an appetizer of the start of the book, I have posted the first four chapters under the books button at the top of my website.